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Cranfield becomes first airport to deploy Altitude Angel's Guardian Enterprise platform Published 29 Apr 2021 Share Altitude Angel, the world’s leading UTM (Unified Traffic Management) technology provider, has announced Cranfield University’s global research airport is the first aerodrome to deploy its next-generation airspace management solution - GuardianUTM Enterprise - into service. Launched in March, GuardianUTM Enterprise is an intuitive, cost-effective platform which has been developed to support regional and local airports and airfields. It will provide Cranfield with a combined v...

NationofChange ‘The greatest purveyor of violence in the world’ “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." Image Credit: Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Getty Images Fifty-four years ago, standing at the pulpit of Riverside Church in New York City, Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his now-famous “Beyond Vietnam” sermon. For the first time in public, he expressed in vehement terms his opposition to the American war in Vietnam. He saw clearly that a foreign policy defin...

50 Black Writers Whose Impact Went Beyond the Page By Rachel Cavanaugh, Stacker News On 2/23/21 at 8:00 PM EST Harris & Ewing/Interim Archives/Getty African American authors have created a rich body of literature: fiction and nonfiction, essays, poetry, scholarly articles and more. The narratives they've added to American storytelling have shifted perspectives and prompted fresh conversations; their writing has shaped how the Black experience is viewed and understood in America by readers of all races and backgrounds. In the 19th century, African American literature was driven by narrative...

Bridget Cooks, author of "Exhibiting Blackness," steaks with Folasade Ologundudu about the changing field of Black art history.

Bridget R. Cooks. (Photo by Evelina Pentchev.) This article is part of a series of conversations with scholars engaged with Black art for Black History Month. See also Folasade Ologundudu’s interviews with Richard J. Powell, Darby English, and Sarah Lewis. *** In her much-discussed 2011 book, Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum, Cooks looked at the ways that museums have perpetuated racial inequity through the presentation and curation of African American and African diaspora artists. Her account started with the very first show in America featuring Africa...